CVE-2026-78588
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Filebeat Leading to Denial of Service
CVSS Score
6.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Filebeat can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An attacker able to reach the Filebeat HTTP ingestion endpoint could send specially crafted compressed requests that exhaust the memory resources of the Filebeat process.
| CWE | CWE-770 |
| Vendor | elastic |
| Product | filebeat |
| Published | Sep 2, 2026 |
| Last Updated | Sep 2, 2026 |
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CVSS v3 Breakdown
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Affected Versions
Elastic / Filebeat
8.0.0 ≤ 8.19.17 9.0.0 ≤ 9.3.0